Browse published material including veterinary books, periodicals and pamphlets.

Explore in here for early veterinary writing by the forefathers of the profession; descriptions of historic methods and cases; and anonymous backbiting between the professors of competing veterinary schools.

RCVS Vet History is a five year project, in which the historically rich, but previously untapped, collections of the RCVS will be preserved and made more accessible to the public. The project will culminate in two major public outputs...

Articles include: The Veterinary College; A Treatise on the Diseases and Lameness of Horses; An Unusual Form of Bladder; Case of Lithotomy on the Horse Forty-Six Years Ago; On the Strength and Speed of Camels and Dromedaries;…

Articles include: On “College” Veterinary-Surgeon-Making, and the discordant Characters of Teacher and Contractor; Veterinary Anatomy; Discovery of Canals in the Nerves; Observations on the Structure and Economy of the Stomach, in Man and Several Orders of Animals;…

Articles include: On Animal Education; Another of Mr. Coleman’s Fallacies; Observations on the Structure and Economy of the Stomach in Man and several Orders of Animal; On Opinions Respecting Soundness;…

Articles include: Animal Pathology. By Mr. Youatt. Lecture XVII; On Fractures; Retention of the Foetus; The Comparative Effect of the Actual Cautery and the Seton; On Hock Lameness; in Reply to Professor Dick; Contributions to Comparitive Pathology. No XVII;…

Articles include: Animal Pathology. Lecture XIX; On the Transmission of Some Diseases from Animals to the Human Species; Three Fatal Cases of Puerperal Fever; The Great Spinal Organic Nerve (The Pneumo-Gastric) in Cattle;…

Articles include: Contributions to the Pathology and Practice of Veterinary Medicine. Second Contribution. Congestion of the Lungs, &c; The Camel (Dromedary Variety); Lameness in Horses. Blood-Spavin; Lameness in Horses. Thorough-Pin;
Lameness in Horses. Windgall of the Knee;…

Articles include: Editorial. On the Scope and Tendencies of the Veterinary Profession in India; Notes and News; Veterinary Literature: Indian, Past and Present; Veterinary Surgery, Dilatation of the Stomach.-(continued); Veterinary Medicine. Colic among Horses in India…

RCVS VET HISTORY is an RCVS Knowledge initiative, for the preservation and promotion of the historical collections of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, made possible with the support of The Alborada Trust.

The Alborada Trust is a charitable trust founded in 2001. Its aims are the funding of medical and veterinary causes, research and education – and the relief of poverty and human and animal suffering, sickness and ill-health. Charity Registration No 1091660

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Trust (trading as RCVS Knowledge) is a registered Charity No. 230886. Registered as a Company limited by guarantee in England and Wales No. 598443.